NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Cuse Edition

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Here are the football season stats and rankings after the Syracuse game (and Wake Forest, didn’t have enough spare time last week to put together the Wake entry).

Team Statistics

Offense
Scoring Offense: 24.7 (ACC Rank: 10, Nat’l Rank: 90)
Hi: 48
Low: 10

Rushing Yards: 178.8 (ACC Rank: 8, Nat’l Rank: 57)
Passing Yards: 250.2 (7, 54)
Total Offense: 429.0 (6, 56)

Defense
Scoring Defense: 21.2 (ACC Rank: 5, Nat’l Rank: 28)
Hi: 28
Low: 14

Rushing Yards: 150.0 (ACC Rank: 8, Nat’l Rank: 52)
Passing Yards: 204.8 (5, 33)
Total Defense: 354.8 (6, 33)

Turnovers
Offense: 3 fumbles, 8 interceptions, 11 total
Defense: 6 fumbles, 6 interceptions, 12 total
Turnover Margin: +1

More Team National Rankings
Offense
3rd Down Conversion Pct – 78
4th Down Conversion Pct – 37
1st Downs – 52
Sacks Allowed – 107
Passes Intercepted – 61
Red Zone Offense – 78
Tackles For Loss Allowed – 121
Pass Efficiency – 88

Defense
3rd Down Conversion Pct – 71
4th Down Conversion Pct – 56
1st Downs – 46
Passes Intercepted – 61
Red Zone Defense – 114
Sacks – 66
Pass Efficiency – 31
Tackles For Loss – 11

Special Teams
Kickoff Returns – 115
Kickoff Return Defense – 107
Net Punting – 70
Punt Returns – 21
Punt Return Defense – 28

Other
Penalties – 93
Penalty Yards – 85
Fumbles Lost – 29
Fumbles Recovered – 18
Time Of Possession – 13
Turnover Margin – 56
Turnovers Gained – 35
Turnovers Lost – 75

Attendance
Total Attendance (275,708) – ACC Rank: 2, Nat’l Rank: 18
Average Attendance (55,142) – 4, 37
Percent of Capacity (95.8) – 3, 36

Toughest Schedule
Past Opposition: 9-12 (.429) – ACC Rank: 13, Nat’l Rank: 88
Future Opposition: 19-12 (.613) – 4, 30
Cumulative Oppositon: 28-24 (.538) – 8, 54

Individual Statistics

Rushing Leaders
Matt Dayes: 43 att, 188 yards, 4 TD
Pete Thomas: 60 att, 184 yards, 2 TD
Shadrach Thornton: 45 att, 184 yards, 2 TD
Bryant Shirreffs: 31 att, 150 yards, 1 TD
Tony Creecy: 36 att, 113 yards, 1 TD

Receiving Leaders
Bryan Underwood: 30 rec, 357 yards, 1 TD
Rashard Smith: 21 rec, 242 yards
Marquez Valdes-Scantling: 14 rec, 201 yards
Quintin Payton: 12 rec, 159 yards, 1 TD
Jurmichael Ramos: 10 rec, 129 yards

Passing
Pete Thomas: 117-192, 1314 yds, 3 TD, 8 Int, 60.9% Comp Pct, 115.25 rating
Brandon Mitchell: 3-3, 93 yds, 0 TD, 0 Int, 100.0% Comp Pct, 360.40 rating
Garrett Leatham: 6-11, 77 yds, 0 TD, 0 Int, 54.5% Comp Pct, 113.35 rating
Bryant Shirreffs: 4-5, 17 yds, 1 TD, 0 Int, 80.0% Comp Pct, 174.56 rating
Josh Taylor: 0-1, 0 yds, 0 TD, 0 Int
Niklas Sade: 0-1, 0 yds, 0 TD, 0 Int

Tackle Leaders
Robert Caldwell – 49
Dontae Johnson – 39
D.J. Green – 35
Hakim Jones – 33
Justin Burriss – 28

Tackles For Loss Leaders
Robert Caldwell – 8.5
Art Norman – 7.5
Monty Nelson – 4.5
T.Y. McGill – 4
Thomas Teal – 4

Sacks Leaders
Art Norman – 3
T.Y. McGill – 2
Mike Rose – 2
Carlos Gray – 2
Brandon Pittman – 1
Thomas Teal – 1

Interceptions
Jack Tocho – 2
Dontae Johnson – 1
Hakim Jones – 1
D.J. Green – 1
Josh Stanley – 1

Fumbles
Pete Thomas – 2 fumbles, 1 lost
Bryant Shirreffs – 1 fumble, 1 lost
Marquez Valdes-Scantling – 1 fumble, 1 lost
Shadrach Thornton – 1 fumble
Josh Taylor – 1 fumble

Field Goals
Niklas Sade: 12 of 14, long of 48

Extra Points
Niklas Sade: 16 of 16

Punting
Wil Baumann: 29 punts, 40.3 avg, long of 54, 9 inside 20 yard line
Pete Thomas: 1 punt, 35.0 avg

Kickoffs
Niklas Sade: 33 KO, 64.5 avg, 25 touchbacks

Kickoff Return Leaders
Johnathan Alston – 9 returns, 18.8 avg
Rashard Smith – 5 returns, 23.4 avg
Travares Copeland – 2 returns, 16.0 avg

Punt Return Leaders
Rashard Smith – 7 returns, 16.3 avg, 1 TD
Bra’Lon Cherry – 4 returns, 8.8 avg

Individual ACC & National Rankings (Nat’l Top 100)
Rashard Smith (All Purpose) – 8, 62

Pete Thomas (Completion Percentage) – 7, 56

Pete Thomas (Completions Per Game) – 4, 38

Niklas Sade (Field Goal Percentage) – 4, 33

Niklas Sade (Field Goals Per Game) – 1, 3

Jarvis Byrd (Forced Fumbles) – 2, 15

Darryl Cato-Bishop (Fumbles Recovered) – 3, 24
Forrest West (Fumbles Recovered) – 12, 89

Jack Tocho (Interceptions) – 8, 68

Johnathon Alston (Kickoff Returns) – 10, 95

Pete Thomas (Passing Efficiency) – 13, 95

Pete Thomas (Passing Yards) – 4, 45

Pete Thomas (Passing Yards Per Game) – 6, 54

Pete Thomas (Passing Yards Per Completion) – 13, 84

Rashard Smith (Punt Return TDs) – 2, 5

Rashard Smith (Punt Returns) – 2, 7

Will Baumann (Punting) – 10, 76

Bryan Underwood (Receptions Per Game) – 6, 68

Matt Dayes (Rushing TDs) – 10, 91

Niklas Sade (Scoring) – 5, 34

Dontae Johnson (Solo Tackles) – 4, 58

Robert Caldwell (Tackles For Loss) – 7, 36

Pete Thomas (Total Offense) – 5, 44

Thomas Caldwell (Total Tackles) – 7, 84

About WV Wolf

Graduated from NCSU in 1996 with a degree in statistics. Born and inbred in West "By God" Virginia and now live in Raleigh where I spend my time watching the Wolfpack, the Mountaineers and the Carolina Hurricanes as well as making bar graphs for SFN. I'm @wvncsu on the Twitter machine.

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16 Responses to NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Cuse Edition

  1. ryebread 10/17/2013 at 11:11 AM #

    Thanks for the stat updates. I personally think the defense and special teams have played pretty well. It is our offense that has really struggled.

  2. Wulfpack 10/17/2013 at 11:33 AM #

    The D had kept us in all three losses. It is very easy to get discouraged late when your offense can’t move the ball. Can they keep us in the FSU game? I don’t know. Winston is the real deal.

  3. wolfonthehill 10/17/2013 at 11:38 AM #

    So the thing we’re best at is attendance? Awesome.

    Dear Coach – we’re holding up our end of things here…

  4. DC_wolf 10/17/2013 at 11:45 AM #

    Thanks WV. I can’t think of anything nice to say so, as momma used to say: don’t say nothin’ @ all…

    I do think the conference stats are more telling (since that is who we’re supposed to measure up against):

    Clemson: L 26-14
    WFU: L 28-13
    ‘scuse: L 24-10

    So that’s a 12.33 avg. in conference games (or, 3.08 points per qtr), ouch.

  5. vtpackfan 10/17/2013 at 12:01 PM #

    We can’t connect on anything vertically over 10 yards it seems-maybe once a game. It’s not just when Tebow light comes in that defenses stack the box. Cuse was daring Pete to throw it over all game. They seemed to have more respect for our walk on Leatham.

    I’m convinced that if even wonder boy Chad Morris had taken the job that we would be shooting blanks. At least Amato left TOB Daniel Evans 🙁

  6. Greywolf 10/17/2013 at 12:15 PM #

    Watching our boys play is like watching the 3rd quarter of an NFL preseason game — a good portion of the starters are not in the game.

    The Denver Broncos would not be judged with Peyton Manning not in the game. Oh, woe is me. Old what’s name couldn’t get 2 1st downs in a row. Fire John Fox. He’s no better than the guy before him.

    Mr. Red Bull at the hump in the dump has brought his high powered offense from the mid majors and is ranked 76th playing with the big boys. Maybe the Afro studies has drained them of their energy and Mr. Hat won’t share his RB.

    I picked the Holes in a pool this week. Hope to take some of the sting out of it if they win.

  7. Greywolf 10/17/2013 at 12:22 PM #

    There is no vertical passing game with your QB running for his life. Crisp out, then Joe Thuney.

    “They seemed to have more respect for our walk on Leatham. ”
    Thanks, vtpackfan. I hadn’t noticed that.

  8. Pack85EE 10/17/2013 at 12:29 PM #

    Our rushing and passing offense is not as bad as I thought comparatively. So looking closer, Scoring offense – lousy, sacks, TFL’s, Redzone, 3rd downs, all suck on the offense. Me thinks it’s the line, boys.
    When the other team needs to make a stop. They get it done against us.

  9. Pack85EE 10/17/2013 at 12:34 PM #

    I still think Pete is doing a pretty good job considering the circumstances but I noticed one thing about Leatham when he came in. Under pressure when we had to get big yards for a first, he scrambled and stayed behind the line of scrimmage. He did that several times and then made the play. Pete ducks his head and runs forward. That’s OK on 1st, maybe 2nd down, but on 3rd and 10, you have to find the receiver who is past the sticks.

  10. WolftownVA81 10/17/2013 at 12:42 PM #

    Count me as impressed with our 4th string QB. I didn’t even know his name but said wow, this kid can accurately throw a ball. Please don’t someone burst my bubble by saying “Cuse had pulled all their starters.”

    Also impressed with our special teams play.

  11. DC_wolf 10/17/2013 at 1:59 PM #

    *Toughest Schedule*

    Past Opposition: 9-12 (.429) – ACC Rank: 13, Nat’l Rank: 88

    Future Opposition: 19-12 (.613) – 4, 30

    So you mean it’s supposed to actually get WORSE?

  12. Greywolf 10/17/2013 at 3:06 PM #

    ^
    What’s the *it* that’s suppose to get worse?
    The schedule? It is what it is.
    The injury situation?

  13. Khan 10/17/2013 at 4:07 PM #

    ^ Probably all of the above. It IS NC State we’re talking about.

  14. TheCOWDOG 10/17/2013 at 5:13 PM #

    Well…We shall see what the true threat of the read option present opposition come next Saturday. I gotta think Mitchell can take some of the starch out of a DL.

    Then there’s the prospect of a true hurry up.
    2nd half of season may prove to be less gloomy in forecast.

  15. Mike 10/17/2013 at 5:41 PM #

    Our yardage numbers are not that bad if you look at just the numbers. We have moved the ball OK until we hit the red zone, where red means stop. Our issues this year are pushing into the end zone once we get inside the 20 (have had several TD’s from outside the 20 on big plays).

    As for Leatham, I am very impressed with him. I saw him play in HS and has a solid arm. I am not saying he is ready to unseat Thomas (or Mitchell or Brissett next year) but I am confident he could be a good backup if needed.

  16. Greywolf 10/18/2013 at 12:19 AM #

    I’m not so certain we’ll see a ‘hurry-up offense’ against the Noles – if the coaching staff feels shortening the game is in our best interests. IOW DD & MC may think giving FSU more touches is not smart. OTH if they think H-U O will confuse the defense, then we will see it. Why you see it at the end of games is keep it close or in position to win and then going for it at the end, which is a good strategy for an underdog. That was the Jimmy V philosophy that was so successful — when it worked. It worked in 83.

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